[hpsdr] My hardware setup

[Steven Wilson]

I thought I would just post of some recent experience on this subject.

I have a base Atlas system, i.e. 
Metis/Mercury/Penelope/Alex/Pennywhistle system. My GOAL is to run with 
EVERYTHING contained within the Pandora box.  I've tried all levels of 
small ARM based boards - I've had constant issues with GHPSDR that are 
all mine for whatever reason.

So recently I thought - well lets go back to Intel in the smallest 
platform I can find. That is how I found the Intel NUCs.  It looks alot 
like the original miniMac.  It is very roughly 1 1/2" by 4 1/2" (by site 
not by ruler).  It has a video port, a few USB ports, 1G Ethernet, It is 
a basic Atom Based PC of very recent vintage. I got 8 GBytes of memory 
and an SSD card for it and loaded it with a new version of Win 7.

I use HPSDR as an HF radio and only need/will ever really use a couple 
of receivers in my day-to-day usage. So I'm just running stock PowerSDR 
on it with a 20% CPU overhead. I ran it in the RTTY contest a bit last 
weekend with FLDIGI and it worked just fine.

Summary - it is an attractive little box that is an entire PC. With the 
SSD it boots quickly and since I don't plan loading a ton of software 
onto it I suspect the SSD is going to last a good long time!

I'm going to still play with GHPSDR - but that IS the point after all! ;-)

Steve KA6S

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